Understand me--Dirk never told me--" "Dirk Peters" interposed Captain Len Guy, quickly.

"You knew Dirk Peters ?" "Yes." "Where ?" "At Vandalia, State of Illinois." "And it is from him that you have all this information concerning the voyage ?" "From him." "And he came back alone--alone--from that voyage, having left Arthur Pym." "Alone!" "Speak, man--do speak!" I cried, impatiently.

Then, in broken, but intelligible sentences, Hunt spoke,-- "Yes--there--a curtain of vapour--so the half-breed often said--understand me.

The two, Arthur Pym and he, were in the Tsalal boat.

Then an enormous block of ice came full upon them.